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July 8, 2011

6+ Home Run Games In Red Sox History

Last night's 10-4 win over the Orioles was the 25th time in Red Sox history that the team hit six home runs in one game. The list of games can be found here.

As I mentioned in the G87 game post below, Baseball Reference's data goes back only to 1919. However, home runs were scarce during the Deadball Era and because the Red Sox's first 6+ HR game in that 1919-2011 span came in late 1940, I feel confident in assuming the team had no 6+ HR games from 1901-1918.

Six different players have homered in the same game only five times in Red Sox history:

The '77 crew also had four games in which they hit five home runs, including back-to-back games against the Yankees on June 18 and 19 - after hitting six on June 17! Three days later, on June 22, they hit five dongs against the Orioles. In 10 games between June 14 and 24, the Red Sox crushed 33 taters!

Lifelong Tiger fan, but that 1999 game was the only game I ever went to at Tiger Stadium, and remember the 10 total HR to this day. My cousin later played with Boston from '08-'11 but I still root for them now too.